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Sur Duda, Genini, Summer Dean, Driving Slow Motion, The Cush, and more put out some quality tuneage this year. By Juan R. Govea, Patrick Higgins, and Steve Steward

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jail. Waybourn is quick to remind our community of the dangers of hardened criminals, but that grandstanding belies the realities of a local criminal justice system that preys on the poor. Were it not for Wilson’s exorbitant $1,000 bond, set by magistrate Judge Filipe Calzada, the 34-year-old man whom Joe described as soft-spoken and kind may still be alive.

Jail deaths, unethical school board dealings, new interim city leader appointments, and more are happening now.

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A recent piece by the Dallas Morning News takes pointed aim at the Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Department. “Twenty-one people died in custody of the Tarrant County jail last year, significantly more than any other jail in North Texas,” the editorial board writes. “So far, no one can say why. And it’s very likely that no one will answer for those deaths. That should change.” Tarrant County spokespeople maintain that 16 members of the Tarrant jail population died last year, not 21. Based on state data, the board says Tarrant County’s jail averaged one death to every 185 inmates last year. By comparison, Dallas’ jail had a mortality rate of one to 670 during the same period. Tarrant County Jail has failed inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) three of the last seven years. Sheriff Bill Waybourn, who heads the county jail, did not comment on the story, and neither did Tarrant County head Judge Glen Whitley. “Earlier this year, Waybourn’s colleague in Collin County, Sheriff Jim Skinner, fired seven people and held multiple news conferences after a single controversial death in jail custody,” the board concludes. “Waybourn should likewise go out of his way to show his commitment to transparency, accountability, and saving lives.” Ongoing investigation by our news magazine finds many unanswered questions tied to one of those deaths. Andre Wilson, a 34-year-old homeless Black man, was found dead in his jail cell a few months after being arrested last year for trespassing at and burglary of a Goodwill store (“An Unnatural Death,” Oct. 13). “The inmate was checked and given a dinner tray,” one report reads. “After all inmates were fed, the officers were picking up their trays and discovered [Wilson] laying [sic] on the floor of his cell.”

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Ethically Conflicted Carroll School Board Settles Lawsuit

A recent editorial by the Dallas Morning News places blame for Tarrant County Jail’s high number of custodial deaths on Sheriff Bill Waybourn.

In a recently discovered letter from a former member of Tarrant County Jail named Joe, two gang members stole money from Wilson not long before his death and Wilson told them he was going to turn them in, which worried Joe because he alleges guards often permitted violence among the jail population. Joe, whose name is concealed to protect him from retaliation, believes that Wilson was murdered by the two gang members, who are still in Tarrant County Jail. In his letter, Joe wrote that Wilson was likely poisoned and that one or more jail guards may have known about it. Prescription pills, Joe speculates, could have been ground up finely and placed in Wilson’s food, which could have caused a heart attack. By state law, county jails are required to notify TCJS as well as the Texas Rangers about custodial deaths. The statewide peace officers tasked with investigating public corruption typically handle inmate death investigations. Whether state laws were followed after Wilson’s death remains unclear. The sher-

iff ’s office maintains that an independent investigation was conducted, but when we reached out to the Texas Rangers, we were told that their office merely “assisted” with an investigation. The Rangers have ignored my numerous follow-up emails requesting clarification. TCJS has similarly dodged my requests for investigation findings. On multiple occasions, a spokesperson with TCJC told me that Wilson’s report is not yet ready. The spokesperson would not give specifics on why, after 15 months, the report hasn’t been completed. In a 2019 report, TCJS acknowledged that sheriffs have skirted requirements to conduct custodial death investigations “on multiple occasions.” Reporting by the Texas Observer documented multiple instances in which the Texas Rangers failed to investigate recent custodial deaths. One method sheriffs use to absolve themselves of culpability is to release the inmate from custody moments before they are officially declared dead. The Dallas Morning News is right to call out Waybourn for the culture of death that he has permitted in Tarrant County’s

The Carroll school board recently voted to settle a 14-month-long lawsuit with direct ties to board member Hannah Smith. The vote partly ends one chapter of a fight that has pitted reactionary white parents against reform-minded Southlakers. By mid-2020, the school board that represents Southlake in northeast Tarrant County was ready to adopt the Cultural Competency Action Plan (CCAP) to address longstanding and well-documented racism within the suburb and student population. Those plans drew backlash from conservative, mostly white parents who used bogus misrepresentations of Critical Race Theory (CRT) to falsely portray CCAP as a Marxist ploy to blame white students for America’s history of racism. CRT is a complex academic framework scholars use to study racism’s deleterious impact on society. The wealthy white parents began donating to a PAC, Southlake Families, that was then used to bankroll a lawsuit against the Carroll school district. In the lawsuit, Southlake parent Kristen Garcia alleged that two board members texted in private about the CCAP in violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act, which requires that certain matters of public interest be deliberated only during open meetings. Conservative, white board member Smith has publicly stated that she provided legal advice to the plaintiffs, pummeling the school district that Smith was elected to serve. A Carroll spokesperson would not provide me with the cost of defending against the lawsuit, but reporting by Community Impact, a hyperlocal newspaper with 60 branches across the United States, puts that figure at $132,000 as of February 2021. The lawsuit resulted in a temporary restraining order on CCAP that was issued by two Republican judges — Josh Burgess and Susan McCoy — who attended a fundraiser for Republican judges that was held at the home of the co-founders of Southlake Families PAC (“Buying Judicial Influence,” Sep. 1) late last year.

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Fort Worth City Council recently designated $3.5 million for the Las Vegas Trail neighborhood on the West Side. In January, city staff will work with community leaders to decide how the funds will be allocated. City Councilmember Michael Crain, who represents that area’s District 3, said the grant will allow the city to make “real changes” in the area. Fort Worth’s head attorney and auditor will retire by the end of the year, a city press release read. Fort Worth City Council recently appointed Laetitia Coleman Brown to serve as interim city attorney and John Riggs as interim city auditor. Both Brown and Riggs have extensive experience working for the city. l This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board and not necessarily the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. Submissions will be edited for factuality and clarity.

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ucation department’s civil rights enforcement arm begins investigating allegations of civil rights violations within the school district. Tim O’Hare, Southlake Families cofounder and county judge candidate, applauded the school board’s decision, saying that “Critical Race Theory is now dead in Southlake.”

Wrongful convictions usually result from official misconduct, according to recent reporting by the Washington Post, yet inmates too frequently rely on volunteers and nonprofits to overturn wrongful convictions that result from lazy or unethical police investigations and complicit prosecutors. Fort Worthian Willie Thomas was recently released on bond after lawyers with the Innocence Project of Texas used new techniques to examine DNA evidence tied to the murder of a local club owner in 2011. Prosecutors relied on testimony from two men who confessed to being involved in the burglary that led to the club owner’s death. As part of a plea bargain, the two men testified that Thomas had pulled the

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Smith voted to settle the litigation that she helped organize. Three trustees also voted to settle the lawsuit while Sheri Mills voted against the motion and the two board members accused of violating the open meetings act, Todd Carlton and Michelle Moore, abstained. School board members did not discuss the details of the settlement. The vote comes as the U.S. ed-

Black Inmate Released Following New DNA Evidence

trigger. The DNA test proved that Thomas was not the triggerman. A spokesperson for the Innocence Project told us that Tarrant’s DA does not support Thomas’ exoneration, only the option of a retrial in the same local court system that wrongfully convicted Thomas.

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Willie Thomas (left) remains free on bail but not free of the criminal charges that Innocence Project of Texas lawyers maintain he was wrongfully convicted of.

Republicans like O’Hare cling to misrepresentations of CRT even as the man credited with starting the national CRT misinformation effort debunked his own conspiracy theory. Republican activist Christopher Rufo recently told two NBC News reporters that his goal was to turn CRT into a “national brand, giving American conservatives a new frame for understanding what is happening around them. This makes it easier for conservatives to push back on anti-racism programs without getting into the details” by providing a central point of attack. Ask O’Hare what CRT is. I doubt he has any earthly idea.

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The nation that reads together is united together, not divided.

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One of the few pleasures I’ve found during the pandemic is the time to actually read books — not that I didn’t read them before. It’s just that with fewer distractions and social obligations, I actually had the luxury of time-uninterrupted! I read two great works on pandemics, one by Laurie Garrett and the other by John M. Barry, both amazing science writers, then the wonderful history of Los Angeles in the 1960s by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener was an insightful walk through the history of L.A. that I lived through or experienced first-hand. Then I went on a binge reading through many of the tell-all titles on the fall of Donald Trump, sort of a nightmare before Christmas, the grift that keeps on grifting. However, the real showstopper for me was a novel banned by a Virginia school district, Beloved by Toni Morrison (1931-2019). Now, I’ve heard of Morrison as a talented writer before, but on closer examination, I discovered that she is one of the most celebrated authors of our time. In addition to writing plays and children’s books, her novels have earned her countless prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. As the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Morrison’s work has inspired a generation of writers to follow in her footsteps, so I was surprised that Beloved could possibly be banned. Well, I guess that it places her in good company with some of the best, like John Steinbeck and Harper Lee, who by the way are still on the banned list. What this novel provides us today is much like what Uncle Tom’s Cabin did in 1852 as an anti-slavery novel. Both are set in pre-Civil War America, but what Morrison tells in Beloved is the fictionalized version of a true story that made national headlines back in the day of a runaway slave woman who upon being recaptured by a slave posse does the unthinkable. She murders her children rather than have them returned into slavery. Sethe is a mother of three, haunted by her horrific slavery past and her desperate actions for freedom. As a result, her home is haunted by a furious poltergeist, which drives away her two sons. Morrison is such a compelling and creative storyteller that the mystery of how such a murderous act is re-

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vealed comes in layers. Such a deeply moving tale laced with magic realism or Negro spiritualism could only be told by a woman of color with Morrison’s talents. I could hardly stop reading it, and neither could Oprah Winfrey, who made and starred in a movie version in 1998 with Danny Glover. You can find it on Netflix if you must, but as usual the book is more rather than less. However, I intend to give a few copies as presents. So, in recognition of all things banned or censored these days, I suggest that you visit your local independent bookseller this season and check out the Top 10 most banned books. Banned Books Week 2021 is an annual event sponsored by a coalition of librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas. The theme of this year’s event was “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” Below is the American Library Association’s Top 10 list of banned books. George by Alex Gino. Challenged, banned, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content, conflicting with a religious viewpoint, and not reflecting “the values of our community.” Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds. Banned and challenged because of the author’s public statements and because of claims that the book contains “selective storytelling incidents” and does not encompass racism against all people. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. Banned and challenged for profanity, drug use, and alcoholism and because it was thought to promote anti-police views, contain divisive topics, and be “too much of a sensitive matter right now.” Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Banned, challenged, and restricted because it was thought to contain a political viewpoint, it was claimed to be biased against male students, and it included rape and profanity. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references, and allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of the author. Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin. Challenged for “divisive language” and because it was thought to promote anti-police views. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Banned and challenged for racial slurs and their negative effect on students, featuring a “white savior” character, and its perception of the Black experience.

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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Banned and challenged for racial slurs and racist stereotypes and their negative effect on students. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Banned and challenged because it was considered sexually explicit and depicts child sexual abuse. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Challenged for profanity and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message. If you are a schoolteacher, librarian, or professor, do consider supporting American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom in partnership with the Banned Books Week Coalition. For questions concerning the annual Banned Books Week, contact Coordinator@BannedBooksWeek.org. l A version of this story originally appeared in Random Lengths News. James Preston Allen, founding publisher of the Los Angeles Harbor Area’s leading independent newspaper (1979 to present), is a journalist, visionary, artist, and activist.

Left Behind I am a queer, biracial woman who started with Texas Jail Project as their North Texas Community Organizer in early August. One month later, the six-week abortion ban went into effect. When I attended the Fort Worth Women’s March and Rally for Abortion Justice, I was deeply disheartened by the lack of inclusivity and visibility of nonbinary folks, the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, and women of color as I stood among many white women. Earlier this year, I read the book Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall. The entire book is essential reading, but I especially recommend reading the chapter called “Reproductive Justice, Eugenics, and Maternal Mortality.” I attended the march and rally to make a point as I marched through Downtown Fort Worth with a sign that read, “True reproductive justice addresses environmental racism, lack of prenatal care, food apartheid, housing, discriminatory practices, etc.” I also wanted to shed light on the people often forgotten as part of this movement: the incarcerated. Hood

Feminism taught me reproductive justice is not only an abortion issue but myriad problems that deprive vulnerable communities of access and choice. During my four months as an organizer, a lot of the incarcerated I’ve interacted with have been women. One woman told me she was experiencing symptoms of pregnancy but jailers at Tarrant County Jail refused to allow her to see a nurse practitioner or to request a pregnancy test. She experienced excessive use of force by jailers and complained of food being uncooked. The meager portions forced her to eat scraps off someone else’s plate. Another woman who found out about her pregnancy prior to arrest had her prenatal vitamins discontinued and contracted COVID-19 while being incarcerated at the Tarrant County Jail. She lost weight and described the small food portions and lack of nutrition she was given on a daily basis, referring to the meat as “mystery meat” and sharing that she would only be given two spoonfuls of vegetables with her meal. She had difficulty keeping food down and tried to force-feed herself for the sake of her baby. In May 2020, an unattended woman gave birth inside her cell at the Tarrant County Jail, and the baby died 10 days later. The Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Office

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stated, “No violation was discovered.” Other allegations have been made by pregnant people in other county jails alleging abuse. I share these stories to shed light on the lack of access to reproductive justice in county jails. By Texas law, counties have had to record the number of pregnant women booked in their jails since 2015. In 2019, legislation passed that requires an OB-GYN to specify minimum standards for people who are pregnant. The law banned the use of restraints on pregnant people during pregnancy and 12 weeks after delivery.

Despite the passage of these laws over the past several years, we have continued to see negligence of pregnant women in county jails who are disregarded in the conversation around reproductive rights. Only people who are identified as “females” are reported by jails, and when it comes to jail advocacy and reproductive justice, all other populations are not included (i.e., the LGBTQIA+ members, people with physical and intellectual disabilities, people with mental illnesses, non-binary folks, and more). As the fight continues for abortion access in Texas, let us not forget the people suffering in confinement. Their stories deserve to be told. They should be entitled to the same reproductive rights as the person who is free. People should be marching and rallying for them like they do at women’s marches. Tamera Hutcherson, Fort Worth This letter reflects the opinions of the author and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a letter, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. Letters will be gently edited for factuality and clarity.

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Just outside Lake City, Colorado, my daughter and I came upon an Alpine pond ringed with October snow, thin layers of ice on its surface. We agreed. It was a good place, very near where our family used to tent camp. Then we said a few words and scattered some ashes from my late wife, my daughter’s mother. A few hours later in Montrose, I dropped my daughter off at the airport and started my trek back to Texas. I wanted to make it to Raton that night, but a state highway closure and a long whiteknuckle detour with hairpin turns had different ideas, so the next day, waking up early in Salida, Colorado, I was determined to get as close as I could to the Fort, but sometimes, on the road, the unexpected happens. By noon, I’d decided to stop for lunch for one of my favorites, New Mexican food, so just as I got into Clayton, New Mexico, I pulled into the Santa Fe Trail Cafe. Still lunchtime, the parking lot was packed, which I took as a good omen. As I got out of my car, an older gentleman with a mane of white hair and the build of a linebacker asked if I wanted to eat in the cafe. “Yep, I’m planning on it,” I answered, a bit suspicious. He then informed me the cafe was closed for a dinner after a funeral mass. Disappointed, I thanked him for the info and added that I was sorry for his loss. Then while backing out, I noticed him talking to a middle-aged Latina in the parking lot but didn’t give it much thought because my stomach was just then urging me to get to another cafe PDQ. What stopped me was one hard rap on my passenger side window. It was the old man. I rolled it down. “We got plenty of food here,” he said. “We can spare you a plate.” “Really?” I said. “Of course, come on.” In the cafe, the middle-aged Latina from the parking lot described to me some of the dishes that awaited. Then she explained it was her mother who’d died. I gave her my condolences and thanked her profusely for her generosity. She answered by asking me if I wanted fried chicken. How else could a boy from the South answer?

Coming upon an Alpine pond ringed with October snow, thin layers of ice on its surface, they agreed it was a good place.

“You bet!” I said. She wasn’t the only one to ask what I wanted. Others were equally solicitous. I was bowled over by how friendly everyone was. At 64, I’ve experienced enough of mourning to know it doesn’t always bring out your best. Someone they knew had died, and because of that, they had every reason to not be generous, especially to a stranger like me. I ended up leaving that cafe with much more than a plateful of food. I left with two platefuls and two bowlfuls of just some of best food I’ve ever had. Before leaving, I haltingly asked them where the nearest picnic table was, as if I’d suddenly lost the ability to speak. They figured out what I was getting at and directed me to a picnic area a few miles east of Clayton. In a desolate place with a couple of ancient wooden picnic tables but no garbage cans in sight, I feasted on pasta salad, tasty frijoles, arroz, New Mexico-style stacked enchiladas with chiles, a spicy squash dish, and fried chicken. Having lately subsisted mostly on fast food, it was a veritable feast to me. Buffeted by a constant wind rustling through high, dry prairie grasses, I ate food that was simple, made with fresh ingredients and, yes, love. But it wasn’t just the food. Those people back in Clayton didn’t know me. They didn’t need to be generous, but they were. Sure, it’s corny as hell, but sitting at that picnic table, that fact filled my heart. Maybe it’s what we’ve all gone through the past twentysomething months, social isolation along with a heaping helping of societal breakdown. That day I ended up driving 13 hours, a feat I hadn’t done alone since I was in my 20s. Part of it was maybe the good, nourishing food, but I also think it was finding such unexpected generosity. Of course, now comes the hard part. Here it is the holiday season, the time for paying it forward. In my mind, classic Christmas movie scenes flit by: Jimmy Stewart happily rushing home to be arrested, Edward Gwenn’s Kris Kringle arranging an X-ray machine donation. So how do I, not a particularly giving person at any time of year, ever pass on what I was so fortunate to be gifted with?

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This marks the third consecutive season in which Horned Frog fanatics aren’t able to base their holiday travel around a bowl matchup for their hometown team. It’s almost becoming a routine to relegate ourselves to visiting family and watching other teams on television. #sad But since this is our reality, I’ve taken it upon myself to share a focused list of bowl matchups — not including the big-name bowls — with either local or Big 12 affiliations, so you can plan your viewing/family-avoiding accordingly.

No. 24 UTSA (12-1) vs. San Diego State (11-2) 6:30pm Tue, Dec 21, ESPN Formerly the Miami Beach Bowl (but that, like seemingly everything else, has moved to Frisco), the Aztecs against the Roadrunners should be an exciting early-week matchup between mid-major frontrunners who have both held AP rankings this season. UT-San Antonio was undefeated before a last-game blunder in Denton against North Texas, who spoiled an otherwise perfect season. SDSU is Jekyll and Hyde, winning their third matchup of the season against Pac12 champion Utah but dropping head scratchers against Fresno and Utah states. Most of SDSU’s conference wins were by single digits. I feel comfortable betting on defenses in bowl games, and the Aztecs have a much better one. Toyota Stadium in Frisco isn’t much of a hike for Fort Worthians, and you can probably attend this game for cheaper than a trip to Main Event. Just show up near kickoff with an expired fruitcake, and some scalper will eventually yield his unsold bounty.

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games before an ill-fated decision by nowTCU head coach Sonny Dykes to kick the ball deep against Houston with only seconds remaining surrendered their first loss. Dykes, who was presumably busy negotiating his next job, then lost three of the Ponies’ next four games. The Cavaliers lost big to most of their quality competition, and they squeaked out conference victories by the skin of their teeth to win eligibility. I’m putting faith in the Methodists that they’re rip-pissed about losing their coach to TCU and eager to prove Dykes was wrong to head west. SMU’s superior offense should be able to prolifically run and pass against Virginia for a relatively quiet win.

Photographic evidence that TCU used to play in bowl games.

Armed Forces Bowl (Amon G. Carter Stadium)

Missouri (6-6) vs. Army (8-4) 7pm Wed ESPN A homecoming game for former TCU quarterback Shawn Robinson, who now plays defensive back for the Tigers. Mizzou is an obvious favorite, having played much stiffer competition throughout the season. That said, the Black Knights have acquitted themselves well against their tougher opponents —losing to Wake Forest by 14 and Wisconsin by 7 — and beating Air Force. Army will play their typical ball-control offense and force the Tigers to adapt to defending their runheavy style. The weather should be ideal to attend our hometown bowl, and you can probably score tickets in exchange for a box of candy canes.

Frisco Football Classic

Miami of Ohio (6-6) vs. North Texas (6-6) 2:30pm Thu ESPN Act II of the duo of bowls in the Dallas annex is the battle of the barely eligible. North Texas pulled off a tremendous upset to fight their way 20 miles east for an extra game. No telling who might come out on top as the teams have no common opponents and similar win-loss margins. Still, the Mean Green play in the better conference, so I’d put my pennies on the Dentonites from the tip of the Golden Triangle as they try to maintain their momentum from their UTSA win.

Birmingham Bowl

No. 21 Houston (11-2) vs. Auburn (6-6) 11am Tue, Dec 28, ESPN The Cougars are the second-best ranked team in Texas — weird times we’re living in. Houston lost to Texas Tech in their

season opener and to the playoff-qualifying Bearcats from Cincinnati. Auburn, despite being ranked second to last in their division, has two victories over ranked opponents (Ole Miss and Arkansas) and dropped an overtime contest against Alabama in the Iron Bowl by two points. Houston should be overmatched in talent, but Auburn probably isn’t excited about visiting Birmingham. Who really is? Tune in to watch the Cougars represent our state, but don’t expect them to win unless the Tigers collectively abstain from the game.

Liberty Bowl

Texas Tech (6-6) vs. Mississippi State (7-5) 5:45pm Tue, Dec 28, ESPN The Raiders were second-to-last place in the Big 12 but are bowl eligible unlike TCU and Texas. This matchup, despite being against non-notables in their respective conferences, should be entertaining as noted pirate coach Mike Leach returns to try and embarrass the team who canned him. Leach, who coached at Washington State before heading to the SEC, is, in my opinion, one of the most innovative and underrated coaches in college football. His opponent is interim head coach Sonny Cumbie, former TCU offensive — and I use that word loosely — coordinator and quarterback under Leach during his playing days in Lubbock. Despite similar records, the Bulldogs have a much tidier resume, and the Red Raiders were bad enough this season to dismiss their head coach. State will score at least 35 points, and I don’t envision the Techies keeping pace.

Fenway Bowl

Virginia (6-6) vs. SMU (8-4) 10am Wed, Dec 29, ESPN The Mustangs won eight consecutive

No. 14 Oregon (10-3) vs. No. 16 Oklahoma (10-2) 8:15pm Wed, Dec 29, ESPN Oddball matchup of two perennial powers who didn’t win their conferences and both lost their head coaches this season. Neither conference has a team in the playoff this season. Bryan McClendon, Oregon’s wide receivers coach, is preparing the Ducks, while Bob Stoops returns to reclaim the luxury car gifted to Lincoln Riley which missed oil changes before subsequently being sold on Facebook Marketplace. Stoops — who is essentially being paid $325K to prepare and coach this one game — should be able to wrangle these superior athletes who struggled down the stretch against Baylor and Oklahoma State. Oregon fans still have PTSD from their 31-point meltdown against the Frogs in San Antonio, and I don’t expect the Pacific Coasters to win this time, either.

Gator Bowl

No. 17 Wake Forest (10-3) vs. No. 25 Texas A&M (8-4) 10am Fri, Dec 31, ESPN The Demon Deacons benefited from a prolific offense and an uncharacteristically poor ACC this season. Wake lost to almost every decent opponent excepting North Carolina State this season. Jimbo Fisher’s Aggies were up and down in the competitive SEC and possess a more balanced offense and defense complement. Count on the Aggies exposing Wake again. Fisher is still far from achieving the fanfare that College Station predicted, but a victory over Alabama this season and a nine-win season in the SEC are probably better than any other Texas school could pull off right now. This non-exhaustive guide should give locals plenty of viewing and attending options before the more coveted New Year’s Eve and Day bowls. Navigate back next week as we preview Baylor’s Sugar Bowl contest against Ole Miss and the first round of the College Football Playoff. l

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the world outside. Despite his psychoanalyst (Neil Patrick Harris) warning him that he’s experiencing psychotic delusions, Thomas becomes Neo once again and teams up with a group of rebels to rescue Trinity from the pod where the machines imprisoned her. This, unfortunately, means that the movie has to spend much of its time in the remains of Zion, the rubble-strewn dystopia where humans are rebelling against the machines and where Jada Pinkett Smith (made up to look decades older) is in charge. Why the Wachowskis have always found this place more interesting than the coollooking Matrix is something I’ll never understand. It’s the site of so much clotted dialogue as Lana Wachowski and her cowriters use terms that you need a computer

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“Nothing comforts anxiety like fake nostalgia,” says one of the characters in The Matrix Resurrections. Yeah, they said that to me as I watched that movie in the same auditorium where I saw its predecessor 18 years ago. That line is crap, by the way — I get tons of fake nostalgia from the movies every week, and it only makes me more anxious. However, it did make me remember what drew us to this series way back when: the Asian martial arts, the high technology, the simulated world laid out on a map of Chicago, the Western audiences’ first exposure to Hong Kong-style wire-fu, the casting of actors of color at a time when Hollywood was leery of doing so in a big science-fiction movie, the catsuits and trench coats all combined to make something new. Sadly, Lana and Lilly Wachowski (who were then known as Larry and Andy) went up their own asses before the trilogy was even done, and Hollywood largely moved on from their brand of action influenced by William Gibson and Jean Baudrillard. Even sadder, the long-gestating fourth installment proves that Lana, helming this without her sister, hasn’t moved on from it. The story picks up in the present day, as Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a videogame designer who achieved superstar status with his trilogy of games about the Matrix back in 1999. He maintains a hopeless crush on another regular customer at his habitual internet cafe (Carrie-Anne Moss), who doesn’t know that she inspired the heroine of his games. His CEO (Jonathan Groff) informs him that their parent company, Warner Bros., is forcing them to make a sequel, something Thomas vowed he would never do. That’s when characters he coded into the Matrix start turning up in his life, telling him that he must come with them to

Keanu Reeves spars with Yahya AbdulMateen II in The Matrix Resurrections.

Laurence Fishburne didn’t. However, the rebels working with him are a pallid bunch, and the romantic plot between Reeves and Moss was never good enough to carry the series. The video-game programmers working for Thomas are supposed to stand in for fans of the films, with their theories about what the Matrix represents, and the filmmakers don’t have the wit to pull that off. Inception tackled the idea of playing around in a constructed world with better results, and Free Guy went down so much more easily because its makers had no pretensions to great art. These days, we’re surrounded by old franchises rebooting and retooling themselves in search of fresh angles. In this environment, The Matrix Resurrections feels about as novel as a Furby. l

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Scat Jazz Lounge 111 W 4th St, 817-870-9100 FRI 12/31: NYE Party with Red Young & His Hot Horns featuring Red on Hammond Organ and Vocals, John Bryant on drums and the horns, Tickets are $600 per table at RedYoung.com and include admission, party favors, finger foods, and a champagne toast at midnight for four people. Doors at 8pm, show starts at 9pm. More info at ScatJazzLounge.com.

Mavericks Bar & Grill 601 E Main, 817-548-1442 SAT 1/1: New Year’s Metal Bash featuring Pigweed with Chaotic Justice, Drop Dead Damnit, Edge Of Insanity, Lonestar Conspiracy, and Mind Dissension. COLLEYVILLE The Londoner Pub 5120 State Hwy 121, 817-684-8810 FRI 12/31: NYE at The Londoner Colleyville with happy hour all day, half-price appetizers after 9pm, special, giveaways, live music by Lindsey Kale Band from 8:30pm to 1am, and a champagne toast at midnight. More info at TheLondonerColleyville.com. THE COLONY Lava Cantina 5805 Grandscape Blvd, 214-618-6893 FRI 12/31: NYE Celebration with Infinite Journey - The Music of Journey with special guest DJ. Tickets are $25 on Eventbrite.com or LavaCantina. com. Includes champagne toast at midnight. VIP options are also available.

Billy Bob’s Texas 2520 Rodeo Plaza, 817-624-7117 FRI 12/31 @ 6PM: Lonestar Murder Mystery Dinner performance of A Cold Hearted Christmas. Tickets are $99 per person at LonestarMurderMysteries. com. FRI 12/31 @ 10PM: NYE with Tracey Lawrence. Ages 18 and up. Tickets are $51-$81 reserved / $26 GA at BillyBobsTexas.com.

The Haltom Theater 5601 E Belknap St, 817-677-8243 SAT 1/1: New Years F#*kery Freakshow Party featuring Vivid & Vulgar with 100 Proof Hatred, Dank, MileZero, and TowerHigh. Doors open at

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Lola’s Trailerpark 2735 W 5th St, 817-759-9100 FRI 12/31: NYE with Erick Willis and special guest. Doors 8pm, show 9pm. Tickets are $15 presale, $20 day of show at ErickWillis.com. Main at Southside 1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774 FRE 12/31: NYE featuring Uncle Toasty with BruceMagnus, Heavy Daze, The Infamists, Maestro Maya, and No Place Like Home. Tickets are $7 at doors or on Prekindle.com or MASFW. com. The Post at River East 2925 Race St, 817-945-8890 FRI 12/31: NYE with Squeezebox Bandits and Matt Hillyer. Tables must be purchased in advance and will not be sold at the door. All ages welcome. All tickets include a complimentary champagne toast and black-eyed peas at midnight. Tickets are $25-$120 on Eventbrite. com or ThePostAtRiverEast.com The Ridglea 6025 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-738-9500 FRI 12/31 (theater): Ridglea Metal Fest featuring Element Eighty with Lockjaw and Within Chaos. Tickets are $20-$35 on Eventbrite.com. FRI 12/31 (lounge): NYE featuring The Fabulous Freak Brothers with Asphalt, Dank, Raw Power, and Sedated. Tickets are $20 at doors or $15 in advance at Stubwire.com. (More info at TheRidglea.com.)

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Tulips FTW 112 St Louis Av, 817-367-9798 FRI 12/31: NYE with White Denim and the Ottoman Turks. Doors open at 9pm, show starts at 10pm. Tickets are $30-$125 at Prekindle.com or TulipsFTW.com.

Fat Daddy’s 781 W Debbie Ln, 817-453-0188 FRI 12/31 (main stage): New Years Rockin’ Eve featuring Metal Shop playing the best of 80’s rock. Table for 2 is $50. Table for 4 is $100. Includes champagne and party favors. Tickets at Universe.com/FatDaddys-NYE. FRI 12/31 (patio): DJ Train Wreck spinning dance music on the patio every Fri/Sat 9:30pm-1:30am. More info at FatDaddysLive.com.

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What can I say? After watching the liveaction Jim Carrey film How the Grinch Stole Christmas over the weekend and listening to the audio of the complete 1966 broadcast of said story narrated by Boris Karloff on KNON’s Reckless Rock Radio on Sunday night, I’m in a Dr. Seuss sort of mood. If you choose to stay home this New Year’s Eve, we don’t blame you. Every Who in Whoville will be out on the streets, so please be careful (#DontDrinkandDrive). For those ready to get out there and celebrate, there are options all across North Texas. Here are just a few.

Trees Dallas 2709 Elm St, 214-741-1122 FRI 12/31: NYE featuring ISHI. All ages show. Doors 8pm, show starts 9pm. Tickets are $20 at doors or at TreesDallas.com.

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One would be forgiven for mishearing the name of Jenna Kinard’s new Southlake hotel resto and thinking instead of the aberrant felines from the pretty much universally unpopular musical Cats. Jellico’s is named for the town that sat where Southlake sits now, and, according to the PR folk, the food is described as both “reimagined American cuisine” and “an upgrade” from the fried-chickenand-waffles stuff from the late, lamented Max’s Wine Dive, which is where Kinard

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made herself a name in the Fort before heading on to Hotel Drover’s 97 West briefly. Jellico’s bill of fare includes charcuterie plates, horchata ice cream, and tuna crudo. Also, chicken-and-donuts grace the brunch menu, if you were beginning to think the chef has risen above her Houston upbringing. On the night my party of three visited, the service was absolutely impeccable –– truly worthy of a white-tablecloth restaurant downtown. Server Joshua provided the right amount of information and guidance without resorting to a cheerleader-y “Oh, great choice!” whenever we made a decision. There was a weekend happy hour that we narrowly missed –– if you’re going, get there before 5 p.m. on a weekend. Both our cocktails had special requests, which were met perfectly –– and it turns out that the Mint Condition, with its cucumbers and fragrant botanicals, actually does taste better with gin than vodka. For starters, the deviled eggs could politely be described as dainty. Were they quail eggs? Nope, according to Joshua. Just five halves of tiny hen’s eggs, dwarfed by a chicharron the size of a quarter. The menu disclaimed miso and Korean gochujang chile in the whipped yolk, along with the more traditional chives. The nearest we could come to the flavor profile was an extra spicy Cali roll –– not an overwhelming endorsement. Every nouveau American or Southern cuisine place has a take on the Sunday picnic favorite, and I just didn’t prefer these. The actual entree menu at dinner (or brunch, or breakfast for that matter) consists of seven or eight choices. Supper items include steak, a burger, a vegan option, chicken, fish, and pasta. Joshua described the mushroom ravioli as “more of

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a butternut squash ravioli” and said we’d barely taste the mushrooms. Turns out he was right: The enoki mushrooms added a meaty component and a firm texture to the middle of the ravioli, but the slightly sweet butternut squash was the star. The pasta was firm without being chewy, and the fried sage, honey, and walnut brown butter sauce was absolutely plate-licking good. The roasted chicken was the best thing we ate. A leg and thigh quarter came spatchcock-baked on a bed of perfectly cooked pumpkin risotto. The bird was beautifully seasoned and provided a little extra kick to the risotto that, despite the alleged addition of truffles and asiago cheese, lacked salt when sampled solo. The seared halibut in a white wine garlic sauce tasted fine, with shaved, braised Brussels sprouts adding a nice texture and tang. The dish came with tiny diced potatoes that looked like the white fish and had the same texture, which was disconcerting. All in all, the flavor was fairly bland, and it was the dish we liked least. For dessert choices, we picked the panna cotta and the s’mores Pop Tart. The latter shows how creative Chef Kinard can be. An impressively flaky pastry with a decadent scoop of chocolate ganache came

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Our music writers reflect on another record spin around the sun and all the great local music it produced.

It goes without saying that, so far, the “roaring” in this century’s version of the Roaring ’20s seems to be in reference to the sound of the raging fire in our collective dumpster. It’s been another energy-vaporizing year of social estrangement, widening political divides, and comfortable, middle-class living slipping out of more and more hands. One bright argentum band to be found in the cumulonimbus of the last year, however, has been in the prolificacy it has afforded musicians. Whether because they were inspired by the enormity of world events or simply because they had nothing else to do, local artists have been cranking out new music at unprecedented (there’s that word again) levels, and we, the melodyinsatiable masses of the 817, have been the lucky beneficiaries. Whether your musical DoC is laid-back boom-bap, stirring songwriters pouring their hearts into

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ethereal ballads, or black light-posterized, phar-out psychedelia, our fair burg has been home to a surplus of quality tuneage in the last 12 months. One artist perhaps leading the prolificacy pack is Cameron Smith. On the heels of the beautiful medieval balladesque single “There Is a Price,” last month saw the release of Total Distortion, the second album by Sur Duda — the full-band vehicle for Smith’s signature smart, self-reflective songwriting. It was a long time coming for the series of infectious tracks that expertly blend folk and indie pop, but the end result was well worth the wait. After being picked up by Ben Harper’s Mad Bunny imprint, the hometown band perhaps above any other that deserves national attention might just finally be getting it. The resultant album, Riders in the Stardust Gold, has plenty of both stardust and gold. The inveterate songwriting duo of Burette and Gabrielle Douglas are at the top of their game, and the rest of the country is at long last taking notice. Pianist Katie Robertson and multiinstrumentalist Jen Rux started Genini as a stoner-y hangout session that turned into one of the best recordings this year. The two tracks released this year — “Red Sun Encounter” and “C Loop” — offer meandering, hazy, Casio keyboard runs over analog drum loops, over which Robertson’s dream-like vocals seem to float like a guardian angel. Both tracks clock in at over 10 minutes, and if you’re the kind of person who likes to leave the house without any place to be, they make a perfect soundtrack for getting lost on purpose. With their love letter to the late Denton artist Nevada Hill, Chris Plavidal (Stumptone, Centro-matic) and Steven Lawrie (The Telescopes) forged Storms at Sea and provided a perfect ethereal soundtrack to back a soul’s departure to

the other side with their 7-inch release of “Until the End”/“O Death.” Recording engineer Peter Weirenga (Siberian Traps) contributed to a ton of great music to come out of the 817 this past year, beginning with his own solo project, Pete and the Crying Teeth. His debut EP, Capitalist Jesus, recalls the art rock of Peter Gabriel and the indie-tinged alternative pop of Beck and provides tracks that are appropriate for vibing as much as they are trippy and interesting. One Wierenga project is that by former Chillamundo frontman Denver Williams. He’s made quite a statement with his latest album, The Blooming Eye. The tracks show Williams at his brainy and imaginative best. Weirenga also played a role in helping two of the Fort’s most underappreciated hip-hop artists join forces this past year. That’s when Tornup, who has a voice like thunder and a thought-provoking, socially conscious flow, teamed up with the king of sample-based boom-bap, Phil Ford, better known as the producer BLKrKRT. The collab spawned Hologram Zoo, Vol. 1: The Crypt, a horror-rap concept album about the exploitation of Black artists by greedy record company executives. Weirenga helmed the mixes. In addition,

Ford also released six new installments of his Black Siddhartha series. Volumes IV-IX are made of a seemingly endless supply of languid Eastern-inspired beats that are perfect to sharpen that third eye and get centered to. Keeping with that theme, regional/ traditional music enthusiast April Bond gave us Shansen, eight Indian-inspired spiritual devotions that helped us all get more balanced within ourselves. O. Deletron might approach the notion of “high art” with a wink and a healthy helping of irony, but its music is actually pretty serious, a meditation on middle age vis a vis the things you let go of after you turn 40. The art-rock collective’s main creative driver, known as “Flynn,” got a new job opportunity that required a full-time commitment to going back to school, and as a send-off, the band put out an album in four parts. Jeff, Vols. 1-4 offers over two hours of gauzy ’90s-influenced slacker rock, which might sound intimidating until you slip into its sonics, which wrap around your brain like an old flannel shirt on a gray, windy day. (Full disclosure: Writer Higgins is a member.) Instrumental post-rockers Driving Slow Motion followed up their excellent 2019 full-length Arda (and 2020 single “Nightfall”) with another slab of moody, cinematic soundscapes shaped by swirling guitars that swell and chime until they turn into walls of distorted, majestic gloom. The melodic themes move from emotional states ranging from slow-building anxiety to acceptance and even hope. Last year, multi-instrumentalist Bobby Zanzucchi revived his old band Sleepy Atlantis as a recording project, revisiting old tunes and reshaping them into new sonic angles. The first single, “Strangest Place (Strangers Mix),” hits your heart with the ever-forward motion of continued on page 23

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its synth-heavy pop hook that recalls early2000s favorites like the Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie, and it makes you eager to hear how he’s reimagined his other songs some 15 years later. One of the more endearing projects to come out of extra pandemic-caused free time is Zombi and Friends. Featuring the synth-doom duo as well as members of Zao and Trans Am and with Pinkish Black’s Daron Beck on vocals, the series of ’70s and ’80s soft rock covers highlights just how great songs like Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without a Face” and INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart” truly are. Levi Ray broke through the pandemic malaise with the help of the five-track EP When the Sad Songs Make You Happy. With tracks like “Old Picture” and “Sun and Rain,” it shows that the imposing mountain-man physical presence that his soulful baritone presents is only necessary to house his gigantic heart. Competing for Panther City’s crown for Most Fun Band, Phantomelo busted out with an EP of their sugary indie pop called Water Your Friends, Pt. 1, but it was September’s “Space Prom” that really reached the outer atmosphere. The earworm interplay between vocalist/ guitarist Will Rakkar and bassist Panda Cuenca will have your booty moving with green men on the moon. The other contender for Most Fun is likely Meach Pango. The brightly colored Adidas tracksuit-sporting quintet graced fans with the single “Wander.” A threeminute clinic in power-pumping rock and early-aughts emo, it shows all the energy the band is famous for in their live shows. Veteran acid-rocker Johndavid Bartlett teamed up with his Dreamy Life Records labelmates Acid Carousel for the 11-track album In Your Dreams. Listeners can feel and practically see the colorful psychedelic noise as Bartlett’s wild, raspy voice leads the young Carousel gang of misfits up the 13th Floor Elevator. Honkytonk heroine Summer Dean offered Bad Romantic, her debut fulllength. Over the 11 boots-and-beer tracks, Dean tackles stereotypical gender roles, lost loves, and the wisdom that only comes with a few turns around the sun. With Life Goes On, a body of work that rapper Lou Charle$ describes as “reflecting grief, mourning, and self-realization” after the loss of his father, has begun to answer the question posed in his famous tagline “Who is Lou?” The answer is one of the most thoughtful and emotionally provocative MCs in town. Country songwriter Bubba Bellin put out a trio of singles this year, but it’s “Weather Out the Storm” that stands out for putting his love for both ’90s country hits and ’70s R&B gold on its sleeve. That

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might sound like two incongruent genres crammed into a single song, but Bellin’s groovy, funky guitar work elevates a pretty great tune into a really fun jam. Shoegazers Trauma Ray began the year with a killer self-titled EP of their brand of shimmering, danceable rock. Angular, washed-out guitars and infectious melody easily pull the heartstrings, but the staggering wall of sound also yanks the head into banging as well. Newcomer Hannah Owens dazzled us all with her moving and immersive Time Between. Expertly produced by Ryan Tharp (Red Shahan, Jake Robinson), the album was full oceanic synth textures carrying Owens’ seraphic voice as she blends a barely detectable country twang with beautiful pop. Singer-songwriter Matthew McNeal and collaborator Andre Black grounded through the pandemic to come up with their nine-track album Along for the Ride. Their latest adaptation comes from ideas while on the road touring and as such offers a fitting accompaniment to empty U.S. straightaways with windows down and stereo up. You can’t find any recordings by Cotinga online, but you can catch the chillaxing duo of vocalist Njia Martin and keyboardist/programmer Landon Cabarubio in concert at a Texas NPR affiliate’s studio on YouTube. The plan now is to get some of their soulful, sweet R&B committed to tape (or laptop) early next year. Darrin Kobetich bends into his own wild and vibrant chords. Ever experimental, the guitarist especially leaned into different instrumentation on The Yucca Tapes. The intrepid tunes recall the near nomadic existence Kobetich lived while on a cross-country tour, camping out in his Toyota Tacoma that he lovingly calls his “Space Shuttle.” Celestial L’amour hit the ground running coming out of the break caused by COVID lockdowns. With a sound that hints at Evanescence and Lacey Sturm, the group released four singles this year with “Knocking on the Door” the consensus favorite. Country electronica music enthusiast (yes, that’s apparently a thing) and local cowboy G.W. Childs IV teamed with English record producer John Fryer (Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget, Cocteau Twins) for his single “Tarrant County.” Imagine coming across a horse trailer on an endless freeway that houses a pair of Star Wars Stormtroopers who regale you with a tale of love, longing, and family. Before she’s even turned 21 years old, Claire Hinkle has already released a full album and added a two-song EP this year. The bluesy rocker focuses on heartbreak and self-realization with “Empty Vessel” and her relentlessness in relationships in “Work for Hire.” l

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Big Heaven, the pop-rock project of singer-guitarist Amanda Hand, is dropping a little stocking stuffer of a track on Christmas Eve, releasing a rerecorded version of “Pearls,” a track from the band’s 2018 debut EP, Strike a Match. The original recording, engineered and mastered at Cloudland Recording Studios, is three minutes of distorted, lowfi pop goodness, and while the new version keeps the original’s distorted crunch, it seems way wilder. It’s a live recording that sounds like it was captured during

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a rehearsal, but in doing so, Big Heaven underlines one of its main appeals: the scrappy punch of its live performances. It’s raw and earnest and proudly wears the scribbly solo near the end like a Bikini Kill patch on an old backpack. If you have to spend time with disagreeable relatives over Christmas, you’ll want to have this

While Pinkish Black may be known for the inexorable creep of their monolithic, synth-based doom, singer-keyboardist Daron Beck has always been upfront about his love of pop music, in particular Air Supply and Stevie Nicks. And this year, he lent his gloomy baritone to a project with Zombi (the legendary Pittsburgh duo of bassist Steve Moore and drummer Anthony Paterra) in an allcovers project called Zombi and Friends. Zombi and Friends has released cover versions of songs by a range of honey-

brown ’70s/’80s heroes, including Steely Dan, Eddie Rabbitt, Barry Gibb and Barbara Streisand, Billy Idol, Berlin, and even the fuckin’ Eagles. They had planned on stopping for the year with the cover of Genesis’ “ABACAB” but couldn’t resist dropping one more, the lone track from the Riverbottom Nightmare Band featured in Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas, a 1977 TV special featuring Jim Henson’s Muppets. If you know, you know, and the Zombi and Friends tribute is every bit as deliciously unhinged as the original, which sounds like an Alice Cooper song made for Heavy Metal, the movie. You can find it and the other ZAF covers on YouTube. — S.S. Contact HearSay at Anthony@FWWeekly.com.

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The day has finally come. Nothing else matters today Wednesday but the opening of The Matrix Resurrections, the long-awaited sequel to the powerhouse ’90s sci-fi franchise. (Or is it just me?) While I am obsessed with Keanu Reeves and think Carrie-Anne Moss looked amazing in her sequined, digital-rain-inspired Oscar de la Renta gown at the recent world movie premiere — just look at her! — I’m leaving the commentary to the professionals. Please check out Kristian Lin’s review in the Screen section. For Matrix 4 showtimes near you, check out Fandango.com.

According to TubaChristmas.com, a tuba player in Indiana Thursday named Harvey Phillips put together the first TubaChristmas concert in 1974 as a tribute to his teacher/ mentor William Bell, who was born on Christmas Day 1902. This Christmas marks the 48th anniversary of this tradition that is now carried out by tuba and euphonium players at community concerts around the world. Tuba and euphonium players of all ages are welcome to play Fort Worth TubaChristmas with guest conductor/TCU professor Dr. Clay Garrett at Ed Landreth Hall &

Auditorium on the campus of TCU (2800 S University Dr, 817-257-7000). Registration is $10 per player, but the performance is free for the audience. Registration is at 11am, and the performance is at noon. For more info, search “Dallas/Fort Worth TubaChristmas” on Facebook.com.

Billed as an “English musical hall Christmas Carol,” Scrooge in Rouge Friday is being performed at Stage West (821 W Vickery Blvd, 817-7849378) one final time this season, at 7:30pm. Streaming is also available thru 10pm. Tickets start at $20 at StageWest.org.

At 7pm, shake off those Christmas tunes that have been rattling around in Saturday your head at A Very Sled Zeppelin X-Mas show with Zeppelin tribute band Battle of Evermore at Lola’s Saloon (2736 W 6th St, 817-459-9100). Tickets are $10 on Prekindle.com.

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